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Making Codebase Intelligence Self-Discoverable with the TokenCap Agent Skill

When onboarding human developers, you give them documentation. When onboarding AI coding agents, developers often rely on ad-hoc prompts or complex custom scripts that break across different platforms.

With the TokenCap Agent Skill system in skills/tokencap/, any agent supporting open skill standards can discover, query, and respect repository intelligence without prior manual setup.

How the Skill Architecture Works

The skill is built around three standard files:

  1. SKILL.md: Root declaration with YAML frontmatter, trigger conditions, and high-level workflows.
  2. reference/commands.md: Exact CLI and MCP commands for snapshot generation, impact analysis, and refactoring.
  3. reference/workflows.md: Step-by-step playbooks for PR review, onboarding to unfamiliar codebases, and blast-radius audits.

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